Letter: Consider a shelter dog

October may be dominated by falling leaves and Halloween, but it’s also Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. Across the country, shelter dogs are looking for warm homes with owners who can provide loving care.

It’s not only the pups that need help: Many shelters are severely underfunded and lack the resources to best provide much-needed services while the animals wait to be adopted.

Contrary to popular assumption, national animal organizations give little — if any — support to local shelters.

For instance, the Humane Society of the U.S. is not affiliated with many similarly named local humane societies and gives only 1 percent of the money it raises to local pet shelters.

For those who want to help dogs this month, adopting would have a big impact.

For those who cannot, donating to your local shelter would do a world of good to help animals.

Will Coggin

The writer is research director at the Center for Consumer Freedom in Washington, D.C.

Change for the good

Nice to see the Connecticut Post banner flying unencumbered by the likes over the banner boxes that aim to call attention to some story or other.

Once more, congratulations to the makeup artist, and Dan Haar’s photo and name slip to just above the fold.

And, actually, Drew Brees did not pitch his milk bottle out the crib, he used his feet as the Y of a slingshot and his hands to pull the sling back holding the bottle, and only then, let go to see it fly out of the bassinet.

Also, as the editorial page editor might have noticed, the quotation of Lao Tzu does not say a bike but “a single step.”

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

So, try walking.

Besides, I’d trust a sidewalk before I would a bike lane in most towns and on most highways and byways.